Women's Review of Books Volume 32, Issue 2

March/April 2015

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Trapped in the Self Autism and Gender: From Refrigerator Mothers to Computer Geeks By Jordynn Jack
Reviewed by Ellen Herman

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Cross with the Church Good Catholics: The Battle over Abortion in the Catholic Church By Patricia Miller
Reviewed by Mary E. Hunt

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Exclusion and Unexpectation Girls Coming to Tech!: A History of American Engineering Education for Women By Amy Sue Bix
Searching for Scientific Womanpower: Technocratic Feminism and the Politics of National Security, 1940-1980 By Laura Micheletti Puaca
Reviewed by Nina E. Lerman

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Hard Work and Overalls Out in the Union: A Labor History of Queer America By Miriam Frank; Steel Closets: Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Steelworkers By Anne Balay
Reviewed by Bettina Aptheker

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Sexual Revolutionaries The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution By Jonathan Eig
Reviewed by Wendy Kline

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Rebellion and Survival Holocaust Mothers and Daughters: Family, History, and Trauma By Federica K. Clementi
Reviewed by Evelyn Torton Beck

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Poetry By Marion Brown

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Good Reads A Stranger Comes to Town By Trish Crapo

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Carrying Across Sor Juana Inés De La Cruz: Selected Works  Translated by Edith Grossman
Reviewed by Amanda Powell

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Cartoon By Kelly Froh

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Families in Motion, Fueled by Faith More Than Conquerors: A Memoir of Lost Arguments By Megan Hustad
The Last Days of California By Mary Miller
Reviewed by Joy Castro

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Parallel Lives The Four Words For Home By Angie Chuang
Reviewed by Valerie Miner

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I Want My Face to be Very Mad Spectacular Girls: Media Fascination and Celebrity Culture By Sarah Projansky
Reviewed by Elline Lipkin

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A Tragic Mess The Price of Silence: The Duke Lacrosse Scandal, The Power Elite, and the Corruption of Our Great Universities By William D. Cohan
Reviewed by Laura Pappano

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I Am Because We Are Transformation Now! Toward a Post-Oppositional Politics of Change By AnaLouise Keating
Reviewed by Xiumei Pu

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Sleeping on the Same Pillow Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America By Rachel Hope Cleves
Reviewed by Marla R. Miller